USA completed 37 days of government shutdown, the longest in its history, amid growing political tension that the President Donald Trump attributed to the Democrats, to whom called them “kamikazes” for his refusal to negotiate a new budget package.
The federal paralysis, which began on October 1 after Congress blocked pass a financing lawhas left 1.4 million public employees without pay, including thousands of air traffic controllers and security personnel. Despite this, Trump insists on holding the opposition responsible for “bring down the country in order to prevent its reforms.”
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The president, visibly irritated by the electoral results that gave the Democrats victories in New York, Virginia, New Jersey and Californiaredoubled its political offensive. At a breakfast with Republican senators, he urged them to eliminate the filibuster — the rule that requires 60 votes to pass laws in the Senate — in order to “open the country” and overcome legislative obstruction. “If we don’t do it, we won’t pass any legislation. It’s time to act,” he said.
Closure threatens to last longer
The closure, caused by disagreement between the White House and the opposition on budget allocation and reforms promoted by Donald Trumpthreatens to drag on even longer. The Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffyrecognized that the government faces a deficit of two thousand air traffic controllers and had to reduce operational capacity at 40 airports in the country.
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Meanwhile, the Democratic opposition celebrates its recent local victories as a prelude to what it hopes to achieve in the 2026 legislative elections.Trump is shocked; This closure is a sign of their lack of leadership“said the senator Andy Kim.
He longest shutdown in American historyconverted into symbol of the political blockade in Washingtonthreatens with erode the economy and aggravate the division between a president determined to impose his agenda and an opposition that perceives the crisis as an opportunity to weaken him.